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Another Round?: A Post-War History of Britain in Twelve Drinks by Steven Parissien
£14.99
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
£25.00
The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty by Tracy Borman
£26.00
Domination by Alice Roberts
£22.00
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches by Carol Ann Lee
£10.99
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
£22.00
The Writers' Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg by Uwe Neumahr
£12.99
Stars to Steer By: Celebrating the 20th Century Women Who Went to Sea by Julia Jones
£22.00
The Bagpipes : A Cultural History by Richard McLauchlan
£20.00
The Hiroshima Men by Iain MacGregor
£25.00
The Women Are Not Fine : The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood by Hope Reese
£22.00
An Accidental History of Tudor England : From Daily Life to Sudden Death by Steven Gunn & Tomasz Gromelski
£25.00
Cryptic by Garry J. Shaw
£25.00
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jahner
£10.99
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
£10.99
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
£10.99
To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel by Andrew Martin
£18.99
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence by Sam Kelly
£16.99
Shattered Lands : Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple
£25.00
The Genius Myth : The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
£22.00
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies by Terry Deary
£10.99
The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
£25.00
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
£10.99
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
£10.99
A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
£22.00
Scotland Today & Yesterday : Witness to a Changing Nation by John MacKay
£25.00
The Nazi Mind : Twelve Warnings From History by Laurence Rees
£25.00
The Celts : A Modern History by Ian Stewart
£35.00
Displaced : Civilians in the Russia-Ukraine War by Valery Panyushkin
£9.99
Other Rivers : A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
£25.00
A Cold Spell : A Human History of Ice by Max Leonard
£10.99
The Americans - Beautiful Machines : The Most Iconic Us Cars and Their Era
£55.00
Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied : Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism by Patrick Cockburn
£30.00
House of Lilies : The Dynasty that Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
£30.00
A History of the World in 500 Maps by Christian Grataloup
£35.00
The Console Chronicles by Lost in Cult
£40.00
The New India : The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia
£25.00
This is Europe : The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
£12.99
War & Peace & War : Twenty years in Afghanistan by Andrew North
£25.00
Wonders in the Deep : Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible by Mensun Bound & Mark Frary
£30.00
City of Echoes : A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People by Jessica Warnberg
£11.99
Son of Prophecy : The Rise of Henry Tudor by Nathen Amin
£25.00
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
£30.00
Mystery Cults in the Ancient World by Hugh Bowden
£14.99
The Medieval Scriptorium : Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J. Charles
£16.99
Iconicon : A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain by John Grindrod
£20.00
Gathering of Strangers : Why Museums Matter by Maria Balshaw
£18.99
Empires of the Steppes : The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl
£14.99
The Emperors of Byzantium by Kevin Lygo
£12.99
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
£12.99
A Brutal Reckoning : The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
£12.99
Billy Waters is Dancing : Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain by Mary L. Shannon
£25.00
Adventurers : The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
£12.99
Korea : A New History of South and North by Victor Cha &Ramon Pacheco Pardo
£11.99
Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
£10.99
Well Beings : How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves by James Riley
£25.00
The Iliad by Homer
£14.99
Spycraft : Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration by Nadine Akkerman & Pete Langman
£20.00
The New Breadline : Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century by Jean-Martin Bauer
£22.00
Eve Bites Back : An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
£10.99
The Words of My Father : Love and Pain in Palestine by Yousef Bashir
£11.99
Smoke And Ashes : Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
£22.00
Once Upon a Prime : The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
£10.99
The Fall : The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
£25.00
Unruly by David Mitchell
£10.99
Nostalgia : A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster
£22.00
Operation Biting by Max Hastings
£25.00
The Restless Republic : Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay
£10.99
Spice : The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
£20.00
Potholes and Pavements : A Bumpy Ride on Britain’s National Cycle Network by Laura Laker
£16.99
City of Oranges by Adam LeBor
£16.99
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes (18/01/24)
£25.00
Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera (25/01/24)
£20.00
Spies : The epic intelligence war between East and West by Calder Walton
£25.00
The Princes in the Tower by Philippa Langley
£25.00
The Globemakers : The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft by Peter Bellerby
£25.00
Northern Lights : The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan
£30.00
Stuffed : A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain by Pen Vogler
£22.00
Emperor of Rome by Professor Mary Beard
£30.00
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
£10.99
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
£9.99
Footprints by David Farrier
£9.99
Hidden Hands : The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley
£12.99
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A Northern Wind : Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston
£30.00
About Time : A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
£10.99
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Great-Uncle Harry : A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
£22.00
The Palace by Gareth Russell
£25.00
The Lion and the Dragon : Britain and China: A History of Conflict by Lawrence James
£22.00
The Ruin of All Witches : Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
£9.99
Messalina : A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery by Honor Cargill-Martin
£27.99
The Facemaker : One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
£10.99
Viking Britain : A History by Thomas Williams
£9.99
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
£8.99
Femina by Janina Ramirez
£12.99
Buried : An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
£9.99
Kindred : Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
£10.99
Lost Realms : Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
£10.99
Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
£20.00
A Taste for Purity : An Entangled History of Vegetarianism by Julia Hauser
£30.00
Right This Way : A History of the Audience by Robert Viagas (17/12/23)
£25.00
Crypt by Alice Roberts
£22.00
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak
£25.00
The London Mini and Midi Bus Types by David Beddall
£35.00
Transport For Humans : Are We Nearly There Yet? by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland
£14.99
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An African History of Africa : From the Dawn of Civilization to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
£25.00
Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
£22.00
How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
£10.99
Dance Your Way Home : A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren
£10.99
Cypria : A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by Alex Christofi
£20.00
Divine Might : Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
£10.99
Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town by Professor Mary Beard
£10.99
The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
£19.99
Pompeii : The Life of a Roman Town by Professor Mary Beard
£10.99
The Wager by David Grann (Copy)
£10.99
The Assault on the State : How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future by Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein
£20.00
Silk : A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
£10.99
Emperor of Rome : The Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Mary Beard
£11.99
Pax : War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Hollan
£12.99
Templars : The Knights Who Made Britain by Steve Tibble
£11.99
Nelson's Pathfinders : A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Sea Power by Michael Barritt
£25.00
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The World the Plague Made : The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
£20.00
The Chinese Phantom : the hunt for the world’s most dangerous arms dealer by Christoph Giesen , Philipp Grull , Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
£20.00
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge
£20.00
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
£30.00
Nexus : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
£28.00
Lost Decade : The US Pivot to Asia by Robert Blackwill, Richard Fontaine
£22.99
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker : A History of the High Street by Annie Gray
£22.00
Normal Women : 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
£10.99
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
£18.99
Wages for Housework : The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci
£25.00
Story of a Murder : The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
£25.00
My Battle of Hastings : Chronicle of a Year by the Sea by Xiaolu Guo
£10.99
The Rest is History Returns : An A–Z of Historical Curiosities by Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland
£10.99
King Charles III : 40 Years of Architecture : 2 by Clive Aslet
£20.00
Miracula : Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome by Paul Chrystal
£18.00
Outcast : A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World by Oliver Basciano
£20.00